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I'd want to know what's wrong with the scanner. What do they really think I'll be able to smuggle aboard that they would find in a patdown that they can't find on a scanner.
I'd even prefer a strip search to having someone else TOUCH me. And if that was the only option, I'd eat the cost of the ticket first.
I was hoping that Obama would at least rid of us that ridiculous "color warning" system that they invented after 9-11 "the color for the day is now YELLOW"- who cares? The airport experience now feels like scenes from "1984" or "V for Vendetta". I mostly drive when I can just to avoid the crappy treatment that we receive at the airports. The 9-11 terrorists have WON. We are the least FREE that we have ever been in this country.
Still in favor of giant government regulation? If so, this is what you will get.
I find the following article rather distubing because it is advising Muslim women to refuse the full-body scans and to tell the "pat-down" thugs that they may only pat around the head and neck. First of all, it is because of Muslim extremists that we have all this "security" in the first place. But then to tell Muslim women that they are exempt from having the intrusive pat downs that the rest of us will be subjected to is just plain ridiculous. My suggestion is to install booths at airports that each of us would pass through and if you are hiding explosives, it will detonate them. That way, only the "baddies" will be affected and it will make another seat available on a crowded flight. It is cheaper (no team of TSA thugs required), much fairer, and certainly faster. How can it be wrong...?
Unlike you, I don't have a built in anti-Muslim bias, so this seems to be a legitimate complaint to me. If Muslim women adhere to certain guidelines of modesty in clothing and body contact based on religious beliefs then it seems like our Constitution should protect their right to pratice their faith as they see fit. I would think that these same types of situations would also come up with Catholic nuns and other more "hardcore" adherents of all religions that preach modesty as a virtue.
If we have reached the point where fear has overcome reason and people agree to toss some of our most sacred Constitutional protections on the trash heap in order to feel a little bit safer, than you have to question whether the US as we know it is really worth saving.
Unlike you, I don't have a built in anti-Muslim bias, so this seems to be a legitimate complaint to me. If Muslim women adhere to certain guidelines of modesty in clothing and body contact based on religious beliefs then it seems like our Constitution should protect their right to pratice their faith as they see fit. I would think that these same types of situations would also come up with Catholic nuns and other more "hardcore" adherents of all religions that preach modesty as a virtue.
If we have reached the point where fear has overcome reason and people agree to toss some of our most sacred Constitutional protections on the trash heap in order to feel a little bit safer, than you have to question whether the US as we know it is really worth saving.
And a stranger groping me at the airport is not a legitimate complaint ?
I wouldn't want to expose myself to one of those scanners, but I would be more afraid of Airbus. I just read that Airbus has warned airlines that faulty electronic systems could render their A320 planes uncontrollable, which it seems has already happened when a British Midland plane did not respond to a pilot's actions for minutes But they are working on the problem
Anyway, I have ceased to go by plane, unless it is really unavoidable, which would basically only be the case if a close relative died.
I hope Amtrak gets a big boost from this. They could use the money.
WRONG, its the companies involved in airport security that are winning. Manufacturers of those scanners are laughing all the way to the bank. "qui bono?"
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But they are working on the problem 
